Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) and Moushumi Roy of the department of sociology at Delta College wrote a critical essay, "The Pandemic is Sending India's Poor into the Abyss," that appears on Salon. He explains how the pandemic is exacerbating inequalities in India and the myriad ways the country's underclass are suffering. Bhatta studies how…

Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology) and colleagues published an article, "Power, Hegemony, and World Society Theory: A Critical Evaluation," in Socius.

Colleen Hall-Patton (Sociology) had an article, "Modern Quilting in the 1950s," published in Make Modern magazine, a digital Australian magazine, which used content analysis of 1950s magazine articles to tie together current and historic quilting trends.

Marta Soligo and Josiah Kidwell (both Sociology) published insightful essays exploring the pandemic's influences on social life in Northern Notes, produced by the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds in the UK. Soligo discusses the changing character of leisure during the COVID-19 crisis. Kidwell…

Courtney Jones (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) was a Hall of Fame inductee at the 2020 Rebel Awards. In her four years at UNLV she has been heavily involved with departments and organizations such as Student Diversity & Social Justice, Students United for Reproductive Justice, Students Organizing…

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) published an article, "Accelerators, Amplifiers, and Conductors: A Model of Tertiary Deviance in Online White Supremacist Networks," in a special issue of Deviant Behavior.  

Korey Tillman (Sociology) recently published an essay in the American Sociological Association’s SREM - Mentoring Blog titled "#SocAF – A Movement in Self and Communal Love." The essay highlights his efforts to change academic culture and eradicate impostor syndrome. #SocAF is a movement that focuses on self- and communal-love encouraging…

Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) has been awarded a prestigious Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for the 2020-21 academic year. This fellowship, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, recognizes exceptional early-career faculty with promising research projects. Rodriguez is one of 10 scholars to receive the year-long national…

Andrew Thomas Reyes, Judzia Bombard, and William Gangozo (all Nursing), Tirth Bhatta (Sociology), and Venkatesan Muthukumar (Electrical & Computer Engineering), published an article, “Promoting Resilience Among College Student Veterans Through an Acceptance-and-Commitment-Therapy App: An Intervention Refinement Study,” in the Community Mental…

Andrew Thomas Reyes, William Gangozo (both Nursing), Tirth Bhatta (Sociology), and Venkatesan Muthukumar (Electrical & Computer Engineering), published an article, “Testing the Acceptability and Initial Efficacy of a Smartphone-app Mindfulness Intervention for College Student Veterans with PTSD.” This article is published in the April issue of…

Vanessa Nuñez (Sociology) has been recognized by the prestigious Ford Foundation with a dissertation fellowship honorable mention. She is a doctoral candidate.

Barb Brents (Sociology) co-authored a piece, “What Happens in Vegas … Why Consent Matters in 'Sin City' and Other Sex Tourism Cities” that has been published in The Conversation. Co-authors are Paul Maginn (University of Western Australia), Aleta Baldwin (University of Texas, San Antonio), and Crystal Jackson (John Jay College of Criminal Justice…